Collections of the Maine Historical SocietyThe Society, 1906 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Acadia adventure aged America Archangel B. F. STEVENS Bachiler Bay of Fundy born Boston British Cape Breton Capt Captain capture century Champlain charter Chesapeake claim coast colonists colony command Court Croix Island Cushnoc died Apr died Mar discovery Dummer England English expedition exploration France French George George Waymouth George's George's Harbor George's River Gorges Governor Halifax Harbor Hist Hocking honor Indians interest James John JOSEPH WILLIAMSON June Kennebec King land letter London Maine Historical Society Martin Pring Massachusetts Master Monhegan months Monts nation North Nova Scotia paper passed patent Pemaquid Penobscot plantation Plymouth Popham Port Royal Portland Prentiss Pring Quebec river sailed Samuel savages says sent settlement ship shores Sieur de Monts Smith Stephen Bachiler Tadoussac Thomas Thomaston tion to-day town trade vessel Virginia voyage Waymouth wife William
Popular passages
Page 251 - Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
Page 434 - Nevertheless, every sect or denomination of Christians ought to observe the Sabbath, or Lord's day, and keep up some sort of religious worship, which to them shall seem most agreeable to the revealed will of God.
Page 405 - There lies upon the other side of the wide Atlantic a beautiful island, famous in story and in song. Its area is not so great as that of the state of Louisiana, while its population is almost half that of the Union. It has given to the world more than its share of genius and of greatness. It has been prolific in statesmen, warriorsj and poets.
Page 9 - Surely at this day with us of Europe the vantage of strength at sea (which is one of the principal dowries of this kingdom of Great Britain) is great; both because most of the kingdoms of Europe are not merely inland, but girt with the sea most part of their compass; and because the wealth of both Indies seems in great part but an accessory to the command of the seas.
Page 436 - III. [As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality ; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality...
Page 198 - And the longer I conversed with them, the better hope they gave me of those parts where they did inhabit, as proper for our uses; especially when I found what goodly rivers, stately islands, and safe harbors, those parts abounded with...
Page 198 - They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations.
Page 19 - I met withal to this present, [time,] which, with his relation of the country, wrought such an impression in the lord chief justice, and us all that were his associates, that (notwithstanding our first disaster) we set up our resolutions to follow it with effect.
Page 194 - Harbours, good deeps in a continuall convenient breadth and small tide-gates, to be as well therein for our countries good, as we found them here (beyond our hopes) in certaine, for those to whom it shall please God to grant this land for habitation; which if it had, with the other inseparable adherent commodities here to be found; then I would boldly affirme it to be the most rich, beautifull, large and secure harbouring river that the world affoordeth.
Page 399 - Union has but one domestic hearth ; its household gods are all the same. Upon us, then, peculiarly devolves the duty of feeding the fires upon that kindly hearth, of guarding with pious care those sacred household gods.